Guillaume Bagal (he, him, his) serves as vice president of diversity, equity & inclusion at United Natural Foods, Inc. (UNFI), a Fortune 100 company and largest distributor of wholesale bulk food & products in North America.

Guillaume’s career path includes global health, consulting for pharmaceutical companies, leading policy efforts in a healthcare delivery setting, and heading diversity, equity, & inclusion in a health insurance company.

Deeply committed to community service, Guillaume serves on a number of boards including Amos House and Rhode Island Public Health Institute, where he chairs the community advisory and advocacy group for Open Door Health (RI’s first LGBTQ health center). He previously served on the Rhode Island Governor’s Equity Council, the National Institutes of Health Community Advisory Board, and was elected president of GLAA (Gay and Lesbian Activist Alliance), the nation’s oldest continuously active gay and lesbian civil rights organization.

Angela Bannerman Ankoma (she, her, hers) is the Vice President, Executive Director of Equity Leadership at the Rhode Island Foundation, where she oversees the professional development of leaders of color in R.I., and works to eliminate inequality and racial disparities and promote inclusion and diversity.

With nearly 25 years of public policy and health policy experience, Angela previously served as Executive Vice President, Director of Community Investment, at the United Way of Rhode Island (UWRI), where she led the organization’s grant-making, public policy, government relations, research and evaluation activities. Prior to that, she worked at RI Department of Health (RIDOH) as the founding co-director of the Health Equity Institute.

Angela is actively engaged in local community investment efforts. She has served on the board of West Elmwood Housing Development Corporation, and is a co-founder of their nationally-recognized Sankofa Initiative, a multimillion-dollar project that combines housing with a world market and farm to improve health outcomes among Providence’s growing immigrant community. Angela has also served on the Advisory Board of the Latino Policy Institute, Amos House, Community College of Rhode Island Foundation, and Leadership Rhode Island.

Anna Cano Morales (she, her, hers) is Vice President for External Relations and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Rhode Island College, where she leads the campus community in engaged work towards a more inclusive, diverse, and equitable institution. In this role, she oversees the Institutional Equity Office which includes Title IX, Affirmative Action, and RIC Disability Services Center, and leads the RIC Alumni Affairs office and College Events and Engagement office.

Anna has over 25 years of experience working in nonprofit, educational and government settings where she leads initiatives, programs and policy development that promote a collective culture of equity and well-being for Rhode Islanders and their communities. She previously served as Executive Director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University, and as Associate Vice President for Grants and Programs for the Rhode Island Foundation.

Anna has served on several state and nonprofit boards, including the University of Rhode Island Foundation, the Rhode Island Latino Political Action Committee, the International Charter School, Community Preparatory School, and the Rhode Island Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education, among others. She has sat on numerous task forces and councils in service of Mayoral and Governor transition teams, the Rhode Island Foundation special initiatives and corporate philanthropy.

Dr. Sean Edmund Rogers (he, him, his) serves as Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer and the Spachman Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations at University of Rhode Island. In this role, he serves as a strategic advisor to the university president and cabinet and leads diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and initiatives for URI and its more than 17,000 students and approximately 3,000 faculty, staff, and graduate assistant employees.

Before joining URI, Sean held faculty and leadership appointments at Cornell University, New Mexico State University, and University of New Mexico. Earlier in his career, he held corporate roles in industrial engineering, finance, and marketing at several Fortune 500 firms. Sean is also a US Army Reserve veteran and currently serves as a healthcare administration officer in the US Air Force Reserve.

Sean is an internationally-recognized scholar and has published more than 20 peer-reviewed academic articles and two books on topics such as employment discrimination, workforce diversity, labor unions, and volunteerism.